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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Dunnabridge Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Dunnabridge Pound

A medieval livestock enclosure on open moorland, where Dartmoor farmers once penned straying animals.

Dunstone Cross
Crosses

Dunstone Cross

Lower Dunstone, Ashburton

A modest medieval wayside cross standing on the open moor, marking an old route across Dartmoor.

Other Heritage Sites

Early Christian inscribed stone, Uphill

An early Christian inscribed stone of about AD 550, a granite pillar 1.75 m high reading DAPANNICI NASC FI, perhaps 'the stone of Dapannicius, son of Nascus', near Uphill farmhouse.

Easdon Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Easdon Farmhouse

A grade II* listed farmhouse on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Eastern White Barrow
Cairns & Barrows

Eastern White Barrow

A round cairn, 26 m across and 3.5 m high, on the north-east side of Quickbeam Hill, a Forest bound in 1240, 1609 and 1796.

Eight cairns
Cairns & Barrows

Eight cairns

Eight Bronze Age cairns and a stone alignment on Holne Ridge.

Eight hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Eight hut circles

Bronze Age settlement of ten stone structures on the open moor south of Leeden Tor.

Historic Buildings

Electric Light Shed (remains)

Meldon, Okehampton

Crumbling stone foundations and weathered walls marking an ambitious attempt to bring electricity to remote Dartmoor.

Enclosed hut circle near Brisworthy
Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosed hut circle near Brisworthy

An oval enclosure up to 40 m by 25 m with a hut circle inside and another outside, joined by a short wall, above the Plym valley south-east of Brisworthy.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The only thing that brought us home on long summer evenings was the ring of a handbell by Mum standing at the field gate calling us in for supper.”

Also on Our DartmoorShilstone Tor — A modest tor on Shilstone Hill with views east towards Mid Devon and the 'eastern highlands'.